Who said women can’t be billionaires?

A women with no background, without any influence, can become an influential person. These aren’t just statements, these are facts. Yes, a lady has turned those simple statements into facts. She has proved that to be successful there is no barrier for any gender, any religion or any other thing.

 A child was named Orpah but people mispronounced it regularly and ‘oprah’ stuck. Now she is well known as Oprah Winfrey (African-American). She was born to an unmarried teenage mother who was a housemaid. She spent her maximum of life in rural poverty. She used to wear dresses made of potato sacks for which local children made fun of her. She stayed with her grandmother.

  She with many struggles completed her study and her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store. At the age of 17, she won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part-time.She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college. Winfrey's career choice in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. As a child, she played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of her family's property. Winfrey later acknowledged her grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had encouraged her to speak in public and "gave me a positive sense of myself".

She was the first youngest new anchor. She was then recruited to join as co-host of WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 14, 1978. When she started to host the show, it started to hit the highest ratings and became a popular show. She has done many celebrity interviews, acted in movies, produced movies, published many books and then started her own TV show which became a popular high rated show. 

She debated on many issues. She helped much needy. After all these she not only became rich but also became popular. She was the first black women to be a billionaire. In this article, I just gave a brief information about this great personality because hardly few people can recognise her. she is such an inspiration for women. She has changed many people’s thought process.

Such is her influence today, that during The Presidential Elections in 2008, just one endorsement from her garnered Senator Barack Obama over 1 million votes, playing a crucial role in making him the first African American President of the United States. Now that is power! 

I personally got inspired by her. This is her biography. Am gonna come back with more of Oprah Winfrey in this week, which is really so inspiring so, stay tuned.